R and I saw it as we were returning from his birthday dinner - quite a spectacular sight. My mother called that "the old moon in the arms of the new." Isn't that a pretty phrase?
According to jiawen it's Venus. It seemed awfully high in the sky for Venus, but she says that Venus is especially high and bright right now.
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Date: 2007-04-20 03:42 pm (UTC)According to